Learning from... Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
9 April 2009
Learning from... Mumbai
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Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Cairo
Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
15 September 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
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Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
5 October 2017, 6:30pm
Guido Beltramini, what was history for patrons and architects in Bologna in 1579?
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The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
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Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
Join us in Madrid for a conversation with Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros, with the participation of Ángel Borrego, Enrique Encabo, Albert Ferré (Associate Director, CCA Publications), María Auxiliadora Gálvez, and Moisés Puente. “Is there such a thing as an architecture of conversation?” ask Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros in their text “A Conversation,” published in CIRCO(...)
7 February 2017, 7pm
AP164: A Conversation with Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
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Join us in Madrid for a conversation with Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros, with the participation of Ángel Borrego, Enrique Encabo, Albert Ferré (Associate Director, CCA Publications), María Auxiliadora Gálvez, and Moisés Puente. “Is there such a thing as an architecture of conversation?” ask Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros in their text “A Conversation,” published in CIRCO(...)
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ARCH275453
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Spiral bound reference material, includes: Gooderham & Worts/Triangle Lands, Heritage Asseement; Dalian New Town plan, design and planning consultation, Bing Thom Architects; 1 document containing Simon Fraser Review and Analysis (1988) by Mark N. Wexler, "Ethical Imperatives and Corporate Leadership," (1988) by Kenneth E. Goodpaster, Ruffin Lectures in Business Ethics, University of Virginia and "Values and their Transmission," Report for the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research; Final Canadian Government Participation Expo '70, Osaka.
Reference material related to various projects
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Spiral bound reference material, includes: Gooderham & Worts/Triangle Lands, Heritage Asseement; Dalian New Town plan, design and planning consultation, Bing Thom Architects; 1 document containing Simon Fraser Review and Analysis (1988) by Mark N. Wexler, "Ethical Imperatives and Corporate Leadership," (1988) by Kenneth E. Goodpaster, Ruffin Lectures in Business Ethics, University of Virginia and "Values and their Transmission," Report for the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research; Final Canadian Government Participation Expo '70, Osaka.
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Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
23 April 2009
Learning from... Niagara Falls
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Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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AP197.S1.SS9.012
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The box contains drafts, final copies, notes and correspondence for various articles, interviews, keynote addresses and lectures by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized in alphabetical order, from B-CO. The largest portion of the box is comprised of drafts and correspondence on Caltrava Bridges. Also included is a dossier for the International Committee of Architectural Critica (CICA). Other subjects and architects explored in these texts include Georges Baines, Luis Barragan, H.P. Berlage, Mario Botta, the British Library, Alberto Campo Baeza, China's sacred sites, and David Chipperfield.
1977-2016
Kenneth Frampton writings (B-CO)
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AP197.S1.SS9.012
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The box contains drafts, final copies, notes and correspondence for various articles, interviews, keynote addresses and lectures by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized in alphabetical order, from B-CO. The largest portion of the box is comprised of drafts and correspondence on Caltrava Bridges. Also included is a dossier for the International Committee of Architectural Critica (CICA). Other subjects and architects explored in these texts include Georges Baines, Luis Barragan, H.P. Berlage, Mario Botta, the British Library, Alberto Campo Baeza, China's sacred sites, and David Chipperfield.
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1977-2016
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AP197.S3.004
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The box is comprised of correspondence for 1991-1994, organized in alphabetical order by last name, from L-T. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, present, or attend at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries. Correspondence relates to Kenneth Frampton’s involvement/participation as: a lecturer at Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ASCA) Conference and the Chinese University of Hong Kong; a keynote speaker at the National University of Singapore Conference; visiting professorship at the Université de Montréal; as Chairman of the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture; a member of the advisory board for the World Architecture Triennale, Nara.
1991-1994
Personal and professional correspondence for names L-T from 1991-1994
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AP197.S3.004
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The box is comprised of correspondence for 1991-1994, organized in alphabetical order by last name, from L-T. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, present, or attend at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries. Correspondence relates to Kenneth Frampton’s involvement/participation as: a lecturer at Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ASCA) Conference and the Chinese University of Hong Kong; a keynote speaker at the National University of Singapore Conference; visiting professorship at the Université de Montréal; as Chairman of the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture; a member of the advisory board for the World Architecture Triennale, Nara.
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1991-1994
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DR1995:0216:400-550
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correspondence, some with N.B.L. Pevsner, Stanford Anderson, and Christopher Alexander, notes, sketches, clippings, bibliography, list of drawings, draft proposal report, employment statistics, calculations, list of existing facilities, list of housing sites, list of survey photographs, map of Stoke-on-Trent, reprints of articles in 'Architectural Design' (October, 1966) and 'New Society' (June 1966), Archigram flyer for Instant City Workshop, receipts, invoices, some for Tone Vale Hospital, Fun Palace Pilot Project, Donmar and miscellaneous lectures, publication, and draft layout of article in 'New Society'
Correspondence, some with N.B.L. Pevsner, Stanford Anderson, and Christopher Alexander, notes, sketches, clippings
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DR1995:0216:400-550
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correspondence, some with N.B.L. Pevsner, Stanford Anderson, and Christopher Alexander, notes, sketches, clippings, bibliography, list of drawings, draft proposal report, employment statistics, calculations, list of existing facilities, list of housing sites, list of survey photographs, map of Stoke-on-Trent, reprints of articles in 'Architectural Design' (October, 1966) and 'New Society' (June 1966), Archigram flyer for Instant City Workshop, receipts, invoices, some for Tone Vale Hospital, Fun Palace Pilot Project, Donmar and miscellaneous lectures, publication, and draft layout of article in 'New Society'
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AP197.S1.SS9.013
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The box contains drafts, final copies, notes and correspondence for various articles, interviews, keynote addresses, and lectures by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized in alphabetical order, from CO-FR.The largest portion of the box is comprised of: a dossier on DO.CO, MO.MO which includes correspondence, pamphlets, programs and newsletters; drafts and correspondence for "the Evolution of 20th Century: a Synoptic Account;" and transcripts of interviews with Kenneth Frampton. Other subjects and architects explored in these texts include the work of Charles Correa, Czech architecture and the avant-garde, Peter Felix, and Norman Foster.
circa 1965-2015
Kenneth Frampton writings (CO-FR)
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AP197.S1.SS9.013
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The box contains drafts, final copies, notes and correspondence for various articles, interviews, keynote addresses, and lectures by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized in alphabetical order, from CO-FR.The largest portion of the box is comprised of: a dossier on DO.CO, MO.MO which includes correspondence, pamphlets, programs and newsletters; drafts and correspondence for "the Evolution of 20th Century: a Synoptic Account;" and transcripts of interviews with Kenneth Frampton. Other subjects and architects explored in these texts include the work of Charles Correa, Czech architecture and the avant-garde, Peter Felix, and Norman Foster.
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circa 1965-2015